Many tell us what to think. I ask my readers to be skeptical. Question me and others. 
Listening to arguments of proponents of our prolonged military presence in Iraq – Bill O’Reilly of Fox News would be a good example – one can conclude that the war in Iraq is already won, by Iran. This makes the war in Iraq even more like Vietnam. We were there not because of the Vietnamese, but because of the Soviet Union and China. Now we need to stay in Iraq not because of the Iraqis, but to oppose Iran, Syria and all Islam extremists around the World. At the time the war started, I wrote a column, “What else can go wrong.” Reading that text now, particularly the last paragraph, is chilling.
